skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> kids can certainly tell an _engaging_ story from a boring one, and kids of all age can turn their noses up at an overly preachy story.

Hmm that's interesting, I would definitely believe it. (I was one of those kids that didn't get past Prince Caspian until his late 20s. Although I didn't recognise it as preachy when I was younger, just not all that interesting.)

> Tolkien and Lewis disagreed ...

This reminds me of David Eddings vehemently declaring Tolkien far too prissy (his word iirc) for high fantasy - that was my first exposure to the "all art is an evolving conversation" perspective, without realising it.

I wonder if -- as far as books for 9-year-olds go -- the conversation has stalled and therefore lost interest, even from a child's perspective. The publishing/entertainment world has poured enormous amounts of money into the previous generation's teenage years (Harry Potter, Twilight, etc), maybe we forgot/decided not to invest in Good Art for the next round of younger kids while that was happening.

I'm still biased in favour of screen time as a primary issue, but I could also see lower publishing, advertising (etc) investment in that age group as a huge confounding problem.
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It's helpful that Romney came out and said it so brazenly. There's been a lot of incredulity over this idea until now.
Not gonna lie I just want to know about all the skeletons in the closet, not so much the tech stuff. I know it’s… dirty, but it’s so interesting hearing about this from other companies, and honestly pretty helpful to have other situations to compare to your own.
i love that
It's also a programming website, so that kind of thing would probably be even better targeted at code examples and keywords (e.g. change a function name to something subtly inappropriate). That would have the added value of helping to make the derivative AI suggest errors, making it even less useful.

Also one could also use a "masking" edit. Make the defacing change then another more innocuous one.

> throw in a few [UTF8] homglyphs to add noise

That seems like it could be defeated by a pretty straightforward normalization task. Either just a straight mapping or a mapping that's applied contextually (e.g. replace an omicron with an o, but only when the adjacent characters are ASCII).
I trust the stuff I design least of all
I assumed it was very normal. But according to this comment section, it isnt. lol
Making espresso with my semi-auto Breville Infuser is almost exactly as much fuss as a pour-over:

- Turn it on to heat up
- Grind the beans
- Weigh the grounds
- Fill, tamp, and attach the portafilter
- Start the infusion
- Remove and dump the grounds
- Clean the portafilter

It's a $600 electronic device, not a simple funnel and filter, but it's not a fussy process.
Gutenberg never worked for me, it could not save the post. This being said, this was likely caused by cloudflare.

Be careful with cloudflare. Wordpress multisite? Does not work with CF.

Another nasty suprise: Very possible CF prevents the indexing of your pics:

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/images-are-not-indexed-by...

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-for-assistance-i...

I turned CF off today and will replace it in the near future with a paid CFN that can run on my own subdomain.
Math proofs, like code, do contain bugs. At least all of them are 'open source.

Come to think of it, imagine a mathematition going 'trust me bro, I've proved this'
That's pretty nuts if true.

There doesn't seem to be any logical connection there but with nature anything is possible.
In what ways is C# the closest to Modula-3's promises?
We absolutely saw that in pretty much every crisis and wartime studied.

And yes, even in COVID times people banded together across countries to help each other.
If the OP of the RT was indeed Oren Ziv, then you cited an anti-zionist journalist, that works for an anti-zionist news paper, photographing a what looks like an anti-zionist rally.
just a heads up it's segue in the context you're using it
A recovery email is optional, and Proton VPN is no logs.
LOL. I got screamed at by a lunatic because my three year olds trainrobber bandana wasn't covering her nose. Banding together has caveats.
Eh, I had all the issues of Moj Mikro while they were publishing in Serbo-Croatian, as well as all the issues of Svet Kompjutera, Računari, and PC until around 2007-2008 (Računari ceased publishing a few years later). They were all carefully packed in the basement until my mother decided to throw them all away, as who needs old stuff?

And I was planning to spend my retirement days playing with the ZX Spectrum and reading stuff that I immensely enjoyed as a kid. Tough luck :)
If they took it at their store, fine. If they want me to take an hour to go print a label (I don't have a printer), and then another hour to package it up and ship it. I'll pass.

They also say to erase the data before shipping it - which I can't do.
I don't get this self-entitlement... It sounds so childish. The same users erasing posts have used knowledge on SO to do their jobs, therefore profiting from it. Now SO will profit from it, and so will OpenAI, as they should.

Also, answers are edotsble by other users, so you don't own them after you post them.
Whatever ways you're thinking of, I bet they aren't as sustainable as you think.

Both entrepreneurs and scammers are trying all sorts of different ways to make money until they find something that happens to actually work.
>ever since he could drink, taught him how to pick good wine.

Except that people who think they can "pick good wine" actually can't (there have been studies, too lazy to Google), and for the most part quality and price aren't correlated.

Luxury beliefs and all that.
no worries. it has two wings. ;-)
This comes of as ahistorical to me (as an american at least). Every significant moment in the US labor movement came down to workers vs. police, it's not like the robber barons were shooting the miners, steelworkers, etc. themselves
> These people do not have the same needs in a language yet they almost all wind up shoveled into C.

Why is that tho? There are better languages for each of those applications. What do you think, is it business requirements? Hardware? Regulation? Legacy code?
I built a tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services
I built this tool to monitor third-party cloud and SaaS services and send notifications, primarily meant for techops/SRE folks. I built this based on my past work experience where I felt a need for such a tool and had to be satisfied with patched together scripts.

E.g. Getting alerted when my public cloud has incidents, my monitoring SaaS is unable to send alerts, GitHub has intermittent issues, Slack has trouble delivering messages, Stripe has payment failures for an edge case, and so on.

It was important to catch these issues before they impacted my apps. For paging services, I wanted to avoid potential disasters because my on-call teams were not receiving alerts (true story - AWS had an outage and PagerDuty was not sending alerts). For non-infra services like Slack, I wanted to know if there were message drops or delays.

There are RSS feeds for these services but I wanted a single place to monitor the ones I am using and be notified, rather than manually check 10-15 or more RSS feeds.

It's primarily meant for teams that want a simple way to setup such alerts.

I'm the solo dev on this project. I've been in backend development/ops most of my career, so my frontend skills are not great yet, which is evident in the UI :)

Would love to hear feedback.
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I wish we could find a good way to bike over the surface of the water. I haven’t seen anything that’s not slow and cumbersome.
> So your democratic citizens can elect and reelect leaders who illegally invade other countries and wreck people's lives there

I'm not sure what you're referring to precisely... I'm assuming Iraq? The guys that tried to pull what Russia is doing in Ukraine, but in Kuwait? Or do you think you can try to annex a sovereign country, violate the UN Charter, and get a slap on the wrist?

And yes, democratic citizens can elect, and reelect leaders who make illegalities.

> but it's outrageous when democratic citizens are a bit inconvenienced by jammed GPS?

Oh my friend, when Russia murdered 300 people on the flight MH17 was a bit more than an inconvenience.

> Wouldn't it be great if everyone in the world just forgot what the "democratic citizens" did a couple of decades ago?

Not at all, everyone speaks openly about it. Now try to speak about the Tiananmen Square protests in China, or oppose the genocide in Ukraine in Russia, for example.

No one hides the past in Western democracies.

Why do you think there's a popular Russian say about Russia: "The Future Is Certain; It's the Past Which Is Unpredictable" - now Putin is trying to rehabilitate Stalin and Hitler.
Perhaps like myself, there are many people outside of the US who haven’t bothered with trying to claim?

My exposure was pretty small, definitely not enough to justify trying to figure out this whole process would work in my case.
Yes. I tucked it under "support contract" part mentally, actually.
Article is about US company violating US labor guards so yeah my comment really only applies to the US labor movement. Can't speak to Red Guard don't really know anything about them
Long-lived things end up in older generations and aren't traversed much during GC, which is the moral equivalent of being statically allocated.

There's overhead if you mutate old objects in a GCed system due to card marking.

Lisp vectors are vectors of pointers, so there's still an overhead of dereferencing through it. Presumably the objects being pointed to end up compacted together, eventually.
The Apple II was the more dominant 8-bit micro in the US. My impression is that most owners got a disk drive. Probably because the Apple II’s disk drive was a marvel of engineering, being both cheap and fast. Meanwhile, the C64 had a drive that was very expensive and very slow, and hence most Commodore owners would just use the included cassette player.

Perhaps it was similar with the Spectrum?

It also makes some sense that users in the East Bloc would have trouble affording expensive hardware.
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It's my first time launching my own SaaS. I planned to develop it with a friend, but he refused to work with me because his developer skills are higher (in his opinion).
I developed a simple online email scraper by keyword, hashtag, or followers using Google Search as a source of data (with Dorks)

I will be glad to receive any feedback and suggestions.
Yes, but when you report about missteps of governments and members of ruling class, you can either frame it as:

The system (democracy for example) is good, it's bad people doing it wrong.

or

The system is bad, it attracts, and it will always attract psychopaths.

Media are using only the first approach and almost never the second.
C++ is the poster child for incidental complexity.
Also Tesla, while successful as a business, cannot really be describe as a champion of innovation. Electric cars did exist before and would have developed anyway because of stricter and stricter emissions laws even if Tesla never happened.

What they did great was targetting the über riches instead of trying to sell inexpensive EVs for urban dwellers first. But that is more market research than innovation.
You can't delete posts under many conditions on SO.
> Or they'd have turned Lisp machines from hardware into a "Lisp machine" OS

Emacs is that Lisp OS. But it's still lacking a good text editor.
I'm curious how this compares to using fins. Just at a glance, I suspect it causes more drag and is more cumbersome to swim with. But the big thing is if it's more efficient overall than fins.
> it's very much in their economic interests to not have long-lasting immunity.

Whose interests? This is publicly funded (NIH) research from a lab at Duke, which is a university with a massive nonprofit medical center. Government is paying the cost of R&D and it is in the financial interests of the US government to fund development and testing of a long lasting vaccine. Think of the savings to Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA.
What's the advantage of this over foot fins?
This attitude is so un-human and un-scientific.
What kind of stability test is quick enough to run every time the game starts and good enough to detect real problems?
How to prevent fundraising from burning you out
> ...as opposed to non-centralized platforms that certainly won't be scraped by AI companies?

You could avoid the scraping by requiring login or maybe having some continuously generated AI noise requiring social context filter out that a scraper wouldn't have (e.g. a bot in a chatroom that spews garbage that everyone knows to put in their killfile).
I’ve always wished those were slightly cheaper and slightly faster.

4mph and under $250 and I’m sold!
The answers are licensed under CC-BY-SA. It matters.
I think this is pretty correct; the owning class is ideologically opposed to worker control.
I’m actually with the parent — police are administrative, like judges and building inspectors.

I don’t have a fully formed opinion, but I think there is something wrong with unions for government functions. Unions are good because they allow a large number of weak stakeholders to band together to negotiate with a powerful business.

But governments aren’t businesses and don’t have the ruthless profit motive companies do, so I think government unions have too much bargaining power against the very diffuse stakeholders of a government. Police unions especially seem to exist more to avoid accountability than to further wages and working conditions.

I guess I would say that “labor” in the union context is in contrast to “shareholder”, and governments and their employees just don’t work that way.
You can't buy more lifetime.
Evolutionarily, you probably want those types too. An orderly tribe might get slaughtered by some unforeseen situation that they try to fight together; whereas the individualist "I don't give a shit" type might just run away - and let his genes survive. Same in situations of starvation: the DGAS types will lie and cheat to get a bit more of this and a bit more of that, ensuring the survival of their genepool - whereas the meek will probably die out.

Evolution is not a dinner party, to misquote a certain Chinese guy.
Especially so called radical liberalism was very important for development of various forms of leftism such as anarchism.
Is it somewhat OTP part of Erlang/OTP?
I remember listening to a morning radio show and one of their contest radio lines was “we’re giving away… dollars-worth of prizes”
The wasps that tamed viruses
It is still very much a thing.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd
I literally just built a new workstation with 256GB of DDR5 ECC memory and had two detected bitflips within the first hour. It's likely that something's off with the timings or voltages, then, but... if I didn't have ECC, didn't have an AMD processor that generates MCEs Linux can decode, or didn't have a kernel set to log MCEs, would I know about them? Definitely not.
A good question. Perhaps a rule like this: the top 10 tech companies should be put to a worldwide referendum on whether they should be allowed to exist. If "no" is the majority, they should be dismantled into smaller companies or turned into public utilities.
I think PowerPoint or Keynote are better analogs for HyperCard. They all use a "deck of cards" metaphor at their core. HyperCard came on the scene when making GUI applications was still "new". There was so much low-hanging fruit. HyperCard doesn't exactly exist today because the "winners" in each category now exist as full-featured apps, like PowerPoint or Keynote for presentations.
Can someone ELI5 this? Reading comments it sounds like it's going to replace transformers which LLMs are based on? Is it something exponentially better than current tech on scale?
I am willing to bet that not only does where you live have state, but plenty of it. It's like pointing at how bad the outcomes of your state are for the people and then going "see, that's why we need the state." It reads more as an indictment of the state than an indictment of anarchism.
I attended school in Georgia (the US state) and it was similar for me at that age; their goal was to assign about an hour of homework each night.

By the time my sister reached that age (she is 10 years younger), it had gotten so much worse: they were aiming for about two hours of homework. It realistically took closer to 3 or 4, and with many tears shed, even with me and both our parents helping. (She has since been diagnosed with ADHD.)

Perhaps unsurprisingly, she and I have both decided to not have children. Being a kid really fucking sucked then, and it's probably even worse now.
I’ve never heard this before but I’m very interested in the concept. Who wrote about this?
> Felonies are likely to get prosecuted if you have a culprit

Maybe, maybe not. From a very brief Google search, in 2022, 8% of felonies were not prosecuted, and of the remaining more than half of felony charges were downgraded by prosecutors to misdemeanors in NYC.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/apr/08/ron-desant...

This is a fact check of a claim by DeSantis, and the claim is true... with the caveat that it's totally normal and all the prosecutors are doing it.
There are a bunch of small watercraft I really want to try. It’s hard to justify the expensive.

The hydrofoil board with a prop and motor looks really cool.

Just not sure what the learning curve is like and kind of worried about hitting something and flying off.
A tape drive was a standard accessory for the Commodore 64. Almost all games were on tape.

The Amstrad CPC 464 had a tape drive integrated into the chassis (the 6128 used a 3" floppy - not 3" 1/4, a 3" disk).

In the UK and Ireland, in the late 80s, the majority of games software in computer shops was for these two platforms (much cheaper than a PC), with a handful floppy disk stuff for PCs. Consoles came in from the toy shop side rather than the computer shop side.
I don't like mandatory reading. Reading should be a joyous activity, where I choose the books I like to read, not something where others tell me what I should read.
> moments later I have a perfectly average cup of something

Something about this description brings to mind the tea made by a Nutrimatic machine.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhikers/guide/tea.shtml
I miss libraries also. I have no idea how much time I spent wondering around the public library across from my school growing up. I miss flipping through the giant dictionary.
I'm curious how the timing worked - what happened if you were a few seconds early to record? Was the first part of the broadcast filled with noops?
Indeed. “Cartel” or “guild” would be better terms than police “union”.
The main reason is that he's so anti-science and can't be bothered to show a bit of excitement about the miracle hammond achieved. Also the obligatory "chaos theory has nothing to do with underpaying your IT staff and getting sabotaged".

I always felt bad that nobody ever stopped and said to hammond "wow what you've done is amazing". Everyone else with this tech wanted to make super soldiers and other messed up stuff, hammond just wanted to show people dinosaurs. Really my only beef with him was underpaying his IT staff
But didn't this prove the opposite? An optional email recovery.. I think other companies would have been obligated to provide far more information, including emails etc..
Since the full blown IDE is running in a Linux VM, don't you mean, "Linux has superb memory management"?
That is an interesting approach: Excel "Community Edition" and Excel "Old Microsoft Edition", and have them compete. Also, perhaps: after 20 years, software must be open-sourced.
Another thing to go on my block list. Thanks.
I had a few friends in high school go to French and English schools. Seemed to work out pretty well generally, although one had a hard time finding a job. Ended up getting a PhD from an ivy though
Can the right LED panels make up for the lack of daylight in the interior areas?
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Well, if large corporations are banned, then large social networks could not exist easily since no one would have the resources to run them. So, I still stand by destroying large tech corporations.
Every "simple app builder" I saw ended up with the problem that it grew with its audience.

All their feedback came from the top 5% of their users who were always pushing its limits and clamoring for more, which ended up making the product too complicated and blocking it off for new users. See also the evolution from VB6 to VB.NET

(HyperCard's problem was that Apple was a completely dysfunctional organization. At one point it was being rewritten to be embedded into QuickTime, which could have saved it and made it work online, doing what Flash did, but alas)
>the people who work those jobs are usually struggling to make ends meet

You are omitting the large swath of government and civil-service type employees - cops, firefighters, transit workers, utility field workers - whose base salary alone avoids "struggling to make ends meet", but they still want that overtime because time and a half or doubletime at their income level is quite lucrative, plus it helps to spike their eventual pension amount (although lawmakers are slowly wising up to that and cutting off the opportunities for new hires, although they can't change the deals the current workers already negotiated).
Ok, so then we shouldn't even try to make vaccines? I don't know what your point is. We can't solve it completely, but there are still huge benefits.
This on the news that the Astra Zeneca covid vaccine is being pulled due to Thrombosis deaths, i.e. blood clots.

I'm pro-vaccine and I'm waiting a long time before I try a new one. Let other people be the test subjects. I skip new to market pharmaceuticals for the same reason.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/07/astrazeneca-with...
They don't support general arithmetic. They do have member functions for abs, multiplication, negation and power operations, but they are all checked/saturating if they can result in 0.

If you want to do actual arithmetic, you have to get the internal i16, perform the arithmetic, then rewrap it.

https://godbolt.org/z/T5e36zzM5
> Whatever its flaws, the writing you find online is authentic

That aged like milk.
Back in the day, there were magazines that had a flexible plastic LP/single (aka 'vinyl'), that you'd play on your stereo, and record to cassette, and load into the computer.

Coincidentally, it's this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FePROXUG6E
I didn't say fully retire. I said become independent and start your own business or independent income stream like writing, content creation, etc. Actually, that is what I am doing.
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